15 Minute Focus Grief Processing And Recovery

In 15-Minute Focus: Grief: Processing and Recovery, Dave Opalewski offers school counselors and educators a primer on how to handle the death of a student or staff member. No matter if the death was sudden or the result of a long illness, it can devastate an entire school family and its surrounding community. Students are impacted every time they walk into a classroom and see a classmate's empty desk or a substitute teacher sitting at a deceased teacher's desk. When tragedies like this occur, schools must respond quickly and offer what grieving students and staff need most comfort. In this book, Opalewski gives schools a guide for addressing the death of a student or staff member, including what to say and what not to say to students along with helpful communication and intervention strategies for school counselors, educators, and administrators. What you'll get: - Learning the concepts and implementation process of comfort before counseling - Grief research and data for children and adolescents - Grief support group setup - Activities to help students process grief, classroom activities, tips for parents, and more! No school can truly prepare for the death of a student or staff member. A loss like this will shake the school family. But this book will give counselors and educators the information they need to respond to tragedy with understanding and comfort so that they can help students and staff work through their grief in a positive and productive way.

Empowering Schools and Communities: Your Guide to Suicide Prevention

In the US alone, suicide tragically claims around 50,000 lives annually. These are individuals, not statistics - loved ones, friends, and members of our communities.

Are you a school counselor, administrator, or educator seeking to bridge the gap between schools and communities on suicide prevention?

Answering the Cry for Help equips you with information and tools to develop a powerful Community Suicide Prevention Program (C-SPP). This Updated and Revised resource provides:

• Early Warning Signs: Learn to recognize and understand the subtle and not-so-subtle indicators of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
• Effective Intervention Techniques: Learn best practices for offering compassionate support to students at risk, guiding them towards resources and treatment.
• Building a Crisis Response Team: Discover how to train educators and administrators to effectively manage critical situations and navigate the aftermath.
• Securing Resources: Uncover valuable insights on acquiring funding for your C-SPP and establishing strong partnerships with mental health and community organizations.
• Media Savvy: Learn how to communicate effectively with the media to raise awareness about suicide prevention without sensationalizing the issue.
• Proactive Prevention Strategies: This book goes beyond reactive measures. Discover powerful tools to create a nurturing and inclusive school environment that fosters resilience and hope.

Don't wait for tragedy to strike. Empower yourself, your colleagues, and your community to prevent suicide.

Dealing with grief can be difficult at the best of times. It is important to understand what grief is all about and how to tackle it head on rather than letting it simmer under the surface for long periods. C.S Hickman takes a glance at the best approach for dealing with grief in a medically sound manner to ensure it does not consume your life forever.

In 15-Minute Focus: Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences, Dr. Melissa Louvar Reeves gives counselors and educators a primer on how to support students who have experienced trauma. Trauma interferes with the executive functions required to be successful in the classroom; and it impacts our ability to trust our environment and others. In this book, Reeves explains trauma and the overlap with anxiety, and provides understanding for behaviors associated with trauma and why they occur, along with a variety of strategies for school mental health professionals, educators, and administrators. What you'll get: - Identification of the different types of stress and symptoms that accompany trauma exposure - Explanation of commonalities between externalizing disorders and trauma and stressor related disorders - Practical strategies for school mental health professionals, educators, administrators, and parents - Curated list of resources, including organizations, training, curriculum, books, and more! This guide will provide school counselors, educators, and administrators with an increased understanding regarding trauma and effective interventions to provide better supports that facilitate growth and achievement in all areas of life.

The Toolbox for Grief and Loss is an insightful and practical guide for anyone who is suffering, whether from a loss that is recent or long past. Grief does not have a timeline; however, prolonged pain and suffering can be avoided or healed, and the joy in living restored. From her twenty years as a registered psychologist and therapist, Valerie Umscheid brings personal and compelling true stories of how we can get stuck in grief, and effective tools to help us journey through to the other side of traumatic loss. She identifies the many ways loss can affect our lives, even when we do not realize that we are in a state of prolonged grief. This book is a balm for anyone who has experienced: • Loss of a loved one • Relationship loss or divorce • Career loss • Suicide of a loved one • Miscarriage or stillbirth • Loss related to a change in ability • Ambiguous loss due to a chronic illness • Loss of a pet The Toolbox for Grief and Loss outlines a recovery plan for each grief story, and details a number of therapeutic processes that are easy to learn on your own such as: journaling, grief processing letters, mindfulness, and a memory box. Other processes can be explored with a wellness professional such as: Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), and self-hypnosis. Put an end to prolonged grief and rediscover hope for the future!

Grief Recovery: A Workbook for Widows and Widowers, centers on the grief experiences of those who have lost their spouses through death. The workbook will guide you through 10 weeks of learning about your grief, the steps of grieving, and how to recover. It is most effective in a group setting but also suitable for the individual reader. The workbook has been used in Christian church groups with great success for many years. This message of survival, recovery, hope, and a new life will bring comfort to anyone who is grieving. Grief Recovery will help you understand your grief and help you start your recovery. Chapters include: Facing Our Loss, The Grieving Process, Choosing to Recover, Letting Go of the Past, Building a New Life, and Moving Beyond Loss.

The book is divided into five sections. Section one focuses on facts about death and best strategies towards recovery from grief as a result of the loss of a loved one. Section two covers issues on divorce and understanding relationship in general. Here, you’ll discover how best to handle divorce and move on to a new life without having to get trapped for the rest of your life as a result. You will discover the following by reading this book: · Understanding grief · The two sides of death · Stages of grief · Dealing with grief symptoms · Saying good-bye to the memories · How parents can effectively grief the loss of a child · Finding your own way to deal with grief and taking control of your process · Self-help grief remedies · Taking children along on the grief journey This book is practical and easy-to-read. It provides help to those who are grieving and also provides advice on how to help other who are grieving, including children. You will learn from this book that people may experience grief from any type of loss.

The book is divided into five sections. Section one focuses on facts about death and best strategies towards recovery from grief as a result of the loss of a loved one. Section two covers issues on divorce and understanding relationship in general. Here, you’ll discover how best to handle divorce and move on to a new life without having to get trapped for the rest of your life as a result. Here is a preview of what you'll learn... • Short story of a loved one who died • Steps in healing after death of loved one • Grief recovery tips • Moving on from grief • Finding support from others • Dealing with changes after death of loved ones • Accepting death of loved ones • Learning to live again • Much, much more! It is a typical way to react to death, job loss, divorce, or loss of something which is quite important to us, or moving away from family and friends. Agreed, the state of grief and grieving death can last from few days to quite a few years and can certainly be accompanied by mixed feelings of sadness, guilt or numbness. It need not have to be that way all the time.